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如带翼的狮身女怪“斯芬克司”（Sphinxes）、鹰头狮身的怪兽“格里芬”（griffins）、鸟身女怪“塞壬”（sirens）、蛇发女怪（Gorgons）、吐火女怪（Chimeras，狮头羊身蛇尾...
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sphinx [ sfiŋks ]
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n.
- an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
- (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon
- one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
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柯林斯英汉双解大词典
sphinx /sfɪŋks/ (also Sphinx)
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N-COUNT The sphinx is a large ancient statue of a creature with a human head and a lion's body that stands near the pyramids in Egypt. In mythology, sphinxes gave people puzzles to solve, and so a person who is mysterious or puzzling is sometimes referred to as a sphinx. 狮身人面像 [usu 'the' N in sing]
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Then secondly he dedicated great colossal statues and man-headed sphinxes very large, and for restoration he brought other stones of monstrous size.
其次他还奉献上巨人的雕像和非常庞大的狮身人面像。他还运来其它巨大的石块用于修缮目的。
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In which country would you find pyramids and sphinxes?
你在哪个国家可以找到金字塔和狮身人面怪兽？
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And now came the hymns of priests, the dance of savages, accompanied by the noise of drums, and of the wooden tuba. Egypt's cloud-aspiring pyramids, overthrown pillars, and sphinxes sailed by.
高入云霄的埃及金字塔、倾颓的柱子和人面狮身雕像都一一从船只的旁边掠过去了。
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